Anders Jormin | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Anders Bertil Michael Jormin |
Born | Jönköping, Sweden | 7 September 1957
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Double bass |
Anders Bertil Michael Jormin (born 7 September 1957) is a Swedish bassist and composer. [1]
Jormin established a musical partnership with Bobo Stenson in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with Charles Lloyd, in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he also performed regularly with Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko.
Jorman has played and toured internationally with many musicians including Elvin Jones, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Paul Motian, Rita Marcotulli, Norma Winstone, Mike Mainieri, Mats Gustafsson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Dino Saluzzi, Marilyn Crispell, and Kenny Wheeler.
Anders Jormin also teaches double bass and improvisation and holds a Professorial post at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University since 2002. In 1995 he undertook a visiting professorship at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The same appointed him Doctor honores causa (honorary doctorate) in 2003. [2]
Anders Jormin grew up in a musical family with a father who was a professional jazz musician and learned to perform jazz standards at an early age, he studied classical music on piano and bass at the University of Gothenburg and has a long-standing appreciation of folk music and combines classical music with folk and jazz in his compositional approach. [3] Anders Jormin’s brother is the percussionist and pianist Christian Jormin.
Jormin has received the Jan Johansson Scholarship (1992), Jazz Kannan (1994), and a Swedish Grammy for Best Jazz Album with the Bobo Stenson Trio, Reflections (1996). In November 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Royal Music Academy Jazz Prize.
With Don Cherry
With Marilyn Crispell
With Mark Feldman
With Charles Lloyd
With Tomasz Stańko
With Bobo Stenson
With Kenny Wheeler
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